unreceivedogma
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| Cartridges In my humble opinion, buy 3 or 4 NM copies of an LP at about $30 each, chances are one of them is a so-called “hot stamper” and you’ve saved yourself hundreds to a thousand or two dollars. If you properly cared for your records over the last half... | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? As with all things: yes, within reason. In my humble opinion, only two criteria to watch for: - diameter of the copper wire: wider = less resistance - length of cable: shorter = less resistance. That’s it. You don’t have to spend a lotta money f... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? The best sounding gear are that which you can afford. I’ll leave discussion of the rest to the masochists. 😬😝 | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @mrdecibel We might be saying the same thing. In a way, all that I'm saying is that my listening habits have evolved over 54 years, I'm an old fart now and I'm set in my ways. Full stop. | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @roxy54 Which is why, 97 times out of 100, I prefer to sit at home (saving me travel time), in a room that is in part specifically designed for listening, in front of an audio system that evolved over the 54 years I have spent fiddling with it,... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @mrdecibel Being at a live show also has compromises: the person sitting in front of you, the one sitting to one side of you, the one sitting in back of you, the quality of the seating, how far back, to one side, or close you are sitting, the dep... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? The one that sounds best to you is the best. That said, I use a Koetsu Onyx. I have a Koetsu Rosewood Signature as a backup. I use a Grado for 78s. | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? As we all hear differently, and as the term neutral begs the question “neutral in relation to what?”, I don’t know that the question can ever be satisfyingly settled. That said, the anecdotal answer that makes most sense to me is that your sys... | |
| Most underrated female recording artists.. @moonwatcher Make sure you capture #s 5-10 from me. I am sure hardly anyone here knows who they are, especially the two from Peru. The others are from Mexico (the Billy Holiday of Mexico), Cuba/Miami, Hungary and the Congo. | |
| Most underrated female recording artists.. @moonwatcher Oh, cool. My bad! | |
| Most underrated female recording artists.. @moonwatcher I think it may be useful to provide a short list of artists that you have actually heard, not a list pulled from an algorithm that captures every vocalist in the known and parallel universes. My list: Karen Dalton Sandy Denny Laura... | |
| 5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes. This guy is not as entertaining as he thinks he is. | |
| different people may hear the same sound differently... Poppy Crum of Dolby has done extensive and humbling research on this issue. if some folks in this forum took her work to heart, there might be less bickering about this or that component, connect, technique, etc. Once your system reaches a certai... | |
| Joni Mitchell remasters on the way I found this article to be scatterbrained, poorly thought out etc, but it does do an effective job of exposing the “Remastering Industrial Complex”. As I have said many times: take care of your original or initial pressings from 20-70 years ago: ... | |
| Phono Stage Upgrade The cheapskate here. I use a Shure A86A SUT. Cost? About 150 bucks. |